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Intel isn’t slowing its investments in wearable technology, despite mixed signs about how quickly that market is growing. The chip giant on Wednesday said it purchased Recon, a Canadian company that has created a line of high-tech eyewear for sports enthusiasts.

Recon’s Jet glasses, which start at $699, project information like the time and distance of a run or bike ride on the inside of the lens. It also comes with a video camera. Read More »

Google’s Glass is losing support among some developers who are focusing on devices such as smartwatches that they hope will be more socially acceptable than the controversial Internet-connected eyewear.

Twitter stopped developing its Glass app about a month ago in favor of an app for Android Wear, Google’s operating system for smartwatches and other wearable devices, according to a person familiar with the social-media company. Read More »

Google Inc. is hedging its bets as it prepares for a future when our laptops and smartphones will be antiquated technology.

In one of the largest venture-capital deals on record, the tech giant and a slew of well-heeled firms are investing $542 million in Magic Leap Inc., a secretive visual-display company near Miami. The startup is developing its own eyeglasses-like device, different from Google Glass, designed to project computer-generated images over a real-life setting. Read More »

A Herndon, Va. startup that helps corporations use wearable tech to their advantage, APX Labs Inc., has hired ex-Googler Eric Johnsen as vice president of business development.

During his five-year tenure at Google, Mr. Johnsen created Google Glass at Work, an initiative that encouraged developers to make apps for use on smart glasses, specifically to solve problems for corporations. Read More »

Emergence Capital Partners and DCM recently co-led a $3.2 million funding round for a company whose sole mission is building applications for Google Glass, the Internet-enabled eyewear unveiled two years ago by Google Inc.

The company that raised that funding, Augmedix Inc., is the only known example of a “Glass-only” developer raising funding from institutional venture firms, said Kevin Spain, the general partner at Emergence who spearheaded the deal.

Glass—which is not yet mass-produced—has gotten mixed reviews from the public, and a much more tepid response from developers than other mobile gadgets like the iPhone and iPad have attracted.

So why invest in applications for a product that—at least for now—is not in high demand?

A guy walks into a bar and knows the name of the attractive woman across the room before he even says “hello.”

While the scenario may sound like the beginning of a old joke, it’s actually a new mobile app launching Thursday called SocialRadar.

Created by a Washington-based startup by the same name, the app collects information like employment, relationship status, education and music preferences from Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Foursquare, Instagram and Google+. The app then blends that data with locations gleaned from users’ smartphones to present profiles of people nearby.

The app’s debut comes as concerns about consumer privacy and security take center stage both nationally and internationally. Read More »

Cardiothoracic surgeon Pierre Theodore recently performed surgery wearing Google Glass, the wearable computer by Google Inc., and found he could alternate between looking down at his patient and glancing at that patient’s medical imagery on the lens, the same way a driver can alternate between looking at the road and glancing in the rearview mirror.

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